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Although he predominantly worked on popular comedies, his scores were never anything less than sophisticated, and emotionally direct, as works like City Slickers, The Addams Family, A Few Good Men, the Oscar-nominated The American President, the Oscar-nominated The First Wives Club, and the Oscar-nominated Patch Adams attest. LBJ is a superb return to that style of scoring. – Jonathan Broxton, Movie Music UK

No stranger to creating scores for presidential dramas, five-time Academy Award^®-nominated composer Marc Shaiman, known for his work in Academy Award^®-nominated classics such as A Few Good Men, The American President, Patch Adams, Sleepless In Seattle, and more, brings us his score to Rob Reiner’s LBJ. See the full review at Movie Music UK., which includes a retrospective brief of Shaiman’s incredible career as composer!

Starring Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bill Pullman, LBJ is the story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

Electric Entertainment presents LBJ, in theaters now (get tickets).

Home Video, Scores

Throwback Thursday: Revisiting Composer Graham Reynold’s Score To Rotoscope Animated Film, ‘A Scanner Darkly’!

September 22, 2016 Film Music Daily Staff

Download ‘A Scanner Darkly’ Soundtrack: [iTunes]

[Graham Reynolds’ score] is nothing short of the perfect fit for Richard Linklater’s next gen rotoscope interpretation of Philip K. Dick’s novel of drug induced paranoia and corporate mind control. – IGN

In this edition of Throwback Thursday, we revisit A Scanner Darkly Soundtrack–film directed by Richard Linklater! Using a technique called interpolated rotoscope to produce its distinct animated aesthetic, the film is adapted from a novel by Philip K. Dick and features score by Graham Reynolds (Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, Bernie)! Listen to this exclusive album preview below!

Graham’s latest release on Lakeshore, Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, is out now (get it on iTunes).

Warner Bros. Pictures presents A SCANNER DARKLY, available now on Blu-Ray/DVD (get it here) and Digital (Get it on iTunes).

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News, Scores, Soundtracks

Emmy Nominations 2014: Bryan Cranston, Lena Headey, Melissa McCarthy, Matthew McConaughey, Billy Bob Thornton +More Are Named – See The Nominees List!

July 10, 2014 Film Music Daily Staff

The 2014 Primetime Emmy Award Nominations are in, kicking off a month-plus of anticipation and speculation before the awards ceremony, hosted this year by Seth Myers. Take a look at our partial nominees list which underscore Lakeshore Records soundtracks in association with the actors. Who are you rooting for this year?

Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Partial List)

Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad”(Stars in Drive.)
Jon Hamm, “Mad Men” (Stars in Howl.)
Woody Harrelson, “True Detective” (Stars in Defendor and Rampart.)
Matthew McConaughey, “True Detective” (Stars in Mud and The Lincoln Lawyer.)

Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Partial List)

Lizzy Caplan, “Masters of Sex” (Stars in Save The Date.)
Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife” (Stars in Standup Guys.)
Kerry Washington, “Scandal” (Stars in Peeples.)

Lead Actor, Comedy (Partial List)

Don Cheadle, “House of Lies” (Stars in Reign Over Me.)
William H. Macy, “Shameless” (Stars in The Sessions.)

Lead Actress, Comedy (Partial List)

Melissa McCarthy, “Mike & Molly” (Stars in The Heat.)

Supporting Actress, Drama (Partial List)

Lena Headey, “Game of Thrones” (Stars in The Cave.)
Christina Hendricks, “Mad Men” (Stars in Drive and I Don’t Know How She Does It.)

Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (Partial List)

Benedict Cumberbatch, “Sherlock: His Last Vow” (Stars in The Fifth Estate.)
Billy Bob Thorton, “Fargo” ( Stars in Faster, The Informers and The Ice Harvest.)
Mark Ruffalo, “The Normal Heart” (Stars in Zodiac.)

Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Partial List)

Jessica Lange, “American Horror Story: Coven” (Stars in Bonneville.)

Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie (Partial List)

Colin Hanks, “Fargo” (Stars in Untraceable.)

Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie (Partial List)

Kathy Bates (Stars in Bonneville.)

Guest Actress, Comedy (Partial List)

Tina Fey, “Saturday Night Live” (Stars in Megamind.)
Melissa McCarthy, “Saturday Night Live” (Stars in The Heat.)
Joan Cusack, “Shameless” (Stars in Arlington Road.)

Read the full list of nominees at Variety. The 66th Primetime Emmys will air on Saturday, August 25 on NBC.

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13 Songs For Alternative Superheroes

April 5, 2014 Film Music Daily Staff 1 Comment

Captain America: The Winter Soldier opens this weekend. The film from Marvel Comics stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America, who, as his name implies, is one of the world’s Most Finest Superheroes fighting evil and corruption. Not all heroes are super. Bad supers aren’t trying to save the world. They’re just trying to make their little corner of it better. Sometimes, as we learn in the film Superbad, the greatest hero you’ll ever know is already standing right beside you; your best friend. Boop.

In Super, Rainn Wilson stars as Crimson Bolt, a delusional man on mission to save his wife from an evil drug dealer. In My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Uma Thurman plays G-Girl, a heroine-scorned who strays so far from justice that she nearly becomes a super-villain. In Crank, Jason Statham plays the unstoppable Chev Chelios, a true anti-hero who wades through the criminal underworld powered by nothing but epinephrine and a desire to hear his girlfriend pick up the goddamn phone. Here’s a playlist to celebrate those who stumble, trip, and fall into greatness – heroes who lose their way or have strange ideas about what constitutes a good deed.

Download The Albums!

01. Beneath The Clothes We Find The Man… by Jack Black in NACHO LIBRE
02. Calling All Destroyers by Tsar SUPER
03. No Sleep 2Nite by Molly McQueen MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND
04. Bring Us Bullets by Rocket from the Crypt CRANK
05. Defendor Interrupts Dooney & Kat by John Rowley DEFENDOR
06. Goldslick / Seth Fantasy by Lyle Workman SUPERBAD
07. Move, Move, Move by Alan Hawkshaw & Alan Parker NACHO LIBRE
08. The Joker by Fatboy Slim feat. Bootsy Collins MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND
09. I Do by Lo-Def Dollz SUPER
10. Here I Come (feat. Malik B. & Dice Raw) by Dice Raw & The Roots SUPERBAD
11. Adrenalina by David Rolas feat 10 West & Jimi Varrz CRANK
12. Guns Are For Cowards by John Rowley DEFENDOR
13. Tender Beasts of the Spangled Night by Beck NACHO LIBRE